Barta'a-Reihan, Tura-Shaked
05.50-07.20.
Barta’a checkpoint.
People come up in the sleeve, but not in their usual numbers. In the terminal 4 windows are working. At the kiosk we chat with the owner and with M. Both tell us that recently about two thousand fewer people have been passing and they expect further decrease in the coming month. Apparently permits have not been extended to exit Barta’a to Harish, and workers in Harish now have to go via Taibeh checkpoint (Sha’ar Ephraim) – which lengthens the route and increases the cost of the journey. One man also told us that at the end of December the validity of many permits will end and they have not yet been renewed. Another worker, a construction worker in Harish, who has a permit until the end of January says that his permit would be renewed by the contractor.
06.00. The flow of workers gets heavier and another 2 windows are opened. But there is no crowding.
06.30. Tura-Shaked checkpoint.
There are soldiers, but the checkpoint is not yet active.The soldiers sweep checkpoint and put new green bags in the garbage cans – the same bags that will soon join their companions to add to the mess flooding the whole area outside the checkpoint.
06.35. The checkpoint is opened and people enter the checking room. The first one comes out at 6.40, and until 7.20 a total of 45 people and 7 cars passed. People tell us that on Tuesday the soldiers came late and opened only at 7.00.
One man tells us that he had a permit to work in Israel, but in order to renew it he had to pay a contractor a MONTHLY charge of 2500 shekels out of his 6000 shekel wage.
Three Jenin high school pupils pass to the West Bank via the checking room. The young pupils begin to arrive at 7.10 and all pass immediately without checking.
07.15. 2 cars pass to the West Bank. They pass quickly.
Barta’a-Reihan Checkpoint
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This checkpoint is located on the Separation Fence route, east of the Palestinian town of East Barta’a. The latter is the largest Palestinian community inside the seam-line zone (Barta’a Enclave) in the northern West Bank. Western Barta’a, inside Israel, is adjacent to it. The Checkpoint is open all week from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. Since mid-May 2007, the checkpoint has been managed by a civilian security company subordinate to the Ministry of Defense. People permitted to cross through this checkpoint into and from the West Bank are residents of Palestinian communities inside the Barta’a Enclave as well as West Bank Palestinian residents holding transit permit. Jewish settlers from Hermesh and Mevo Dotan cross here without inspection. A large, modern terminal is active here with 8 windows for document inspection and biometric tests (eyes and fingerprints). Usually only one or two of the 8 windows are in operation. Goods, up to medium commercial size, may pass here from the West Bank into the Barta’a Enclave. A permanent registered group of drives who have been approved by the may pass with farm produce. When the administration of the checkpoint was turned over to a civilian security firm, the Ya’abad-Mevo Dotan Junction became a permanent checkpoint. . It is manned by soldiers who sit in the watchtower and come down at random to inspect vehicles and passengers (February 2020).
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Tura-Shaked
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Tura-Shaked
This is a fabric of life* checkpoint through which pedestrians, cabs and private cars (since 2008) pass to and from the West Bank and the Seam-line Zone to and from the industrical zone near the settler-colony Shaked, schools and kindergartens, and Jenin university campuses. The checkpoint is located between Tura village inside the West Bank and the village of Dahar Al Malah inside the enclave of the Seam-line Zone. It is opened twice a day, between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m., and from 12 noon to 7 p.m. People crossing it (at times even kindergarten children) are inspected in a bungalow with a magnometer. Names of those allowed to cross it appear in a list held by the soldiers. Usually traffic here is scant.
- fabric of life roads and checkpoints, as defined by the Terminals Authority in the Ministry of Defense (fabric of life is a laundered name that does not actually describe any kind of humanitarian purpose) are intended for Palestinians only. These roads and checkpoints have been built on lands appropriated from their Palestinian owners, including tunnels, bypass roads, and tracks passing under bridges. Thus traffic can flow between the West Bank and its separated parts that are not in any kind of territorial contiguity with it. Mostly there are no permanent checkpoint on these roads but rather ‘flying’ checkpoints, check-posts or surprise barriers. At Toura, a small (less than one dunam) and sleepy checkpoint has been established, which has filled up with the years with nearly .every means of supervision and surveillance that the Israeli military occupation has produced. (February 2020)
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